Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego
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Pol. Merkur. Lekarski · Jun 2012
[Estimation of possibilities of needs fulfilment made by young people with sight disorders].
According to the statistics, the number of people with sight disorders in Poland exceeds 500 thousand. The world statistics reveal that serious sight disorders reach 1% of the population and the total number of blind and vision loss people has an expanding tendency. Functioning in the contemporary world without the sense of sight is really difficult. The sight plays the major role in experiencing reality, phenomena and objects. It is included in the group of Tele-senses, it receives the stimuli from a distance; it becomes the tool of simultaneous sense of impressions. The aim of the study is to present the estimation of possibilities of needs fulfilment referring to the perspective of people with sight disorders and compare it with analogical estimation made by non-disabled ones. Finally, the article aims to investigate if there is any relation between aforementioned estimation and other variables such as sex, the place of living and the range of vision loss. ⋯ The outcome indicates that the average rate of possibilities of sight disordered people needs fulfilment is lower than analogical rate in control group. Sex and place of living are the factors responsible for such a diversification in the field of estimation of possibility of needs realization. The range of vision loss should therefore not be treated as a factor seriously diversifying the estimation of possibilities of needs fulfilment in experimental group compared to the control group.